I don't have words to describe the loss of her life, and I'm so sad and sorry that Yeardley's gone. Murphy said she decided to come forward because she feels her son should have been convicted on the lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter, labeling Love's death a "drunken accident.
I believed our criminal justice system works and the criminal just system gets it right, but it doesn't always get it right,'' she said. During the trial, Huguely admitted to grabbing Love by the neck but claimed he did not choke her. His lawyers argued that he was very drunk on the night of the murder and could not have plotted to kill her. His attorneys also disputed the prosecution's assertion that Love died of blunt force trauma after having her head repeatedly slammed into a wall.
Murphy believes her injuries came from the two of them falling off the bed. The network of traveling parents became sort of a community, a support system. What Love lacked in size and talent, she made up for with versatility.
She played every position except goalie, and actually dressed up as that one April Fools' Day. In those daily conversations with her mother, Love talked about school and lacrosse but didn't mention much about her dating life. There were signs of trouble, but no one picked up on them, and they certainly didn't think Huguely was capable of killing Yeardley.
But there were signs. Such as Huguely's out-of-control drinking , and the aggressive behavior that accompanied it. At the trial, a North Carolina men's lacrosse player testified that three months before Love's death, he heard Love crying and found Huguely's hands around her neck in a choke hold.
Love told her mother about a physical altercation, but downplayed it when Sharon told her daughter go to the police.
The couple had broken up, and in a few months, she'd move to New York and be far away from him. We obviously couldn't assume that the worst was going to happen in our wildest dreams. What happened to her UVa coach Julie Myers calls May 3, , the longest day of her life.
She was up early unloading the dishwasher when her phone rang at 6 a. Myers' son Timmy always got up at 5 a. At first, she was told that Love had been in an accident and there was "a lot of blood," and Myers assumed it was a car accident. Then she was told that Love was found face-down in a pillow and that she had died.
Myers could not understand what happened. Who would want to hurt Yeardley? She summoned her team to The Lawn, the grassy, historic courtyard that was once the center of Thomas Jefferson's academic community. Sharon Love made her way down to campus, and in her fog of grief and confusion, she asked Myers, "Do you have Yeardley? Yeardley's body was in Richmond for an autopsy. Sharon attended the team meeting, somehow, and looked at the faces who'd become part of her community, young women who'd eventually get married and have children and live adult lives that her daughter never would.
She encouraged the team to stick together and lean on each other for support. She had no idea that 10 years later, those women -- moms and wives and professionals -- would be keeping Yeardley's memory going in their own little ways. Fox Foundation when she got a call that she needed to get over to Sharon Robinson's house because her cousin had just been murdered.
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No arrests were made and Huguely was picked up by a passing boater without injury. The incident occurred not far from the family's million-dollar estate in the wealthy coastal town of Manalapan, Fla.
At a news conference earlier in the day, Casteen said Love would receive her degree posthumously with the rest of her class later this month. Her ex-boyfriend, varsity men's lacrosse player Huguely , also 22, has been charged in her murder.
Though Huguely was by all outward appearances a star all-American athlete, troubling past incidences of violence and alcohol abuse continue to bubble up as police press their investigation. Lexington, Va. Moss said she was forced to use a Taser on the 6 feet 2 inch, pound Huguely after he hurled racial and sexual obscenities at her and threatened her life, telling the officer, "I'll kill you.
I'll kill all of y'all. I'm not going to jail. A Rockbridge, Va. According to the clerk, Huguely completed all of these requirements. Charlottesville police investigating Love's death are also looking into claims of previous violence between Love and Huguely, who dated for more than a year, but broke up shortly before her death.
The two were set to graduate May Huguely has withdrawn from the university.
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